The sheer gravitas of this Prelude by Bairstow is captured brilliantly by you, Ben, on the magnificent Norman & Beard/Klais Orgelbau Organ at St Anne's Cathedral: bravo! In the 1999 'Cambridge Companion to the Organ', this work has been described by Andrew McCrea in chapter 19 as belonging to "some of the most powerful expositions on liturgical melodies in the British repertoire" - and I have to agree, having now heard your awesome rendition in this fabulous upload. Having been born just eight miles from where Bairstow started his life as a 'through and through' Yorkshireman in God's own County, you may wish to set the Yorkshireman's Motto in plainsong style and compose a 'Bairstowesque' Prelude on: "ear all, see all, say nowt; eat all, sup all, pay nowt; and if ivver tha does owt fer nowt - allus do it fer thissen." Or as the more erudite would have it: audi omnia, vide omnia, taceo omnia comede, omnia bibe, nihil redde et, si umquam pro nihilo quicquam - semper faciam tibi
I had a strong connection with Huddersfield - this piece is very moving Ben. Thanks for playing it.
Beautiful, Ben. Keep up the great playing
The sheer gravitas of this Prelude by Bairstow is captured brilliantly by you, Ben, on the magnificent Norman & Beard/Klais Orgelbau Organ at St Anne's Cathedral: bravo! In the 1999 'Cambridge Companion to the Organ', this work has been described by Andrew McCrea in chapter 19 as belonging to "some of the most powerful expositions on liturgical melodies in the British repertoire" - and I have to agree, having now heard your awesome rendition in this fabulous upload.
Having been born just eight miles from where Bairstow started his life as a 'through and through' Yorkshireman in God's own County, you may wish to set the Yorkshireman's Motto in plainsong style and compose a 'Bairstowesque' Prelude on: "ear all, see all, say nowt; eat all, sup all, pay nowt; and if ivver tha does owt fer nowt - allus do it fer thissen." Or as the more erudite would have it:
audi omnia, vide omnia, taceo
omnia comede, omnia bibe, nihil redde
et, si umquam pro nihilo quicquam -
semper faciam tibi